What if we had to write haiku instead of an abstract?

Below you can see my published papers with a short haiku or limerick summary of the content, courtesy of ChatGPT:


Females in Crime - Evelina Gavrilova, forthcoming in A Modern Guide to Economics of Crime, Paolo Buonanno, Juan Vargas, and Paolo Vanin (Eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing


Female crime increasing

Male crime decreasing

Policies not equal

Different responses by gender

Need for gendered crime model

To guide policy, deter crime


Peer Effects in Crime - Evelina Gavrilova, Marcello Puca, forthcoming in A Modern Guide to Economics of Crime, Paolo Buonanno, Juan Vargas, and Paolo Vanin (Eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing


Peer effects in crime exist,

Strongest among same peers

Future research ripe


A Partner in Crime: Assortative Matching and Bias in the Crime Market - Evelina Gavrilova, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 159 (2019), Pages 598-612


Criminals seek partners

Incentive to evade arrest

Positive Assortative Matching

Data shows matching by success

Search frictions by race, bias by gender

Policy makers take note.


Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime - Evelina Gavrilova, Takuma Kamada and Floris Zoutman, Economic Journal, Vol. 129 (2019), Pages 375–407


Medical marijuana laws reduce

Violent crime at the border,

Competition reduces profits


Uncovering the Gender Participation Gap in Crime - Evelina Gavrilova and Nadia Campaniello, European Economic Review, Vol. 109 (2018) Pages 289-304


There was little research on crime and gender

But data showed a significant blunder

Males were more prone to crime

While females earned less time

But both responded to incentives, no wonder


Estimating Both Supply and Demand Elasticities Using Variation in a Single Tax Rate - Floris Zoutman, Evelina Gavrilova and Arnt-Ove Hopland, Econometrica, Vol 86 (2018), No. 2, Pages 763-771


Taxation theory brings light

To elasticities unseen

One instrument, clear sight


Police Officer on the Frontline or a Soldier? The Effect of Police Militarization on Crime - Evelina Gavrilova and Vincenzo Bove, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 9 (2017), No. 3: Pages 1-18


There was a town that had crime aplenty

But they found a solution, oh so dandy

They militarized the police

And to their surprise, they saw a decrease

In crime, it was effective and quite handy